JOEL Selwood is looking forward to finding out just who is going to stand up in the wake of his biggest loss as an AFL footballer.

The Geelong skipper admitted the feeling after last night’s 110-point thrashing at the hands of Sydney was something he didn’t want to experience again and demanded an immediate response from the playing group.

“It is not a feeling that you want I can tell you that,’’ Selwood told the Geelong Advertiser from a deathly quiet Cats’ changerooms last night. “But we have to go through it together right now and we are going to find out who is going to stand up and that is what I am going to look forward to.”

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Geelong coach Chris Scott says the Cats will look to move on quickly from Thursday night's 110-point humiliation against the Swans.

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The 22.16 (148) to 5.8 (38) result was Sydney’s greatest ever winning margin over Geelong and catapulted the Swans into second place on the table. The Cats could slip as far as sixth by the end of the weekend if other results go against them.

But for Selwood, the only thing on his mind was “getting back to work” on Monday ahead of next Friday night’s game against Carlton.

“We usually bounce back from losses really well,” he said. “But in saying that we haven’t had a 100-point loss for a very long time so it is challenging for the group. That is great because while you don’t want it to happen, it is a challenge to see how we can bounce back against Carlton next Friday night.”

But Selwood was offering up no excuses after loss, including consecutive six day breaks.

“No, we are professional footballers,” he said.

“We just got outrun, we got outspread, we got beaten at the contest, we got beaten in the air, it was all over the ground.

“We went into the match really well. We thought we played some pretty good footy for a long part of the game last week, so we came in confident, we thought we matched up pretty well against they. But they (Sydney) were outstanding tonight and we were far from that.”

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Sydney's Adam Goodes could come under scrutiny from the match review panel after appearing to place a high bump on Joel Selwood during the Swans' thumping of the Cats on Thursday night.

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“That will dominate my thinking for the 15 hours that I’m awake tonight, but I’m not in a position to walk you through those things right at the moment,” he said.

“It’s absolutely something we’ll need to address.”

The Cats were blown out of the water right from the start last night, and despite only being four goals down at the first break, never really looked in the contest.

By half time, with still only one goal on the board, a blowout looked on the cards.

As the Swans piled on 14 goals to four goals in the second half, it would lead to the Cats’ biggest loss since a 115-point defeat at the hands of Hawthorn in the opening round of 1990, and their lowest score since 2001.

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Sydney Swans coach John Longmire makes a modest assessment of his side's 110-point thrashing of Geelong on Thursday night.

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Sydney coach John Longmire was full of praise for his senior players after the game.

“I thought the leaders did a good job, as far as continuing to drive the standards throughout the game and making sure we kept the pressure on and kept making sure we played the footy we wanted to play,” Longmire said.

Kurt Tippett booted five goals, Lance Franklin four and Adam Goodes three as Sydney’s star-studded forward line lived up to its reputation against an undermanned Geelong backline missing Tom Lonergan and Corey Enright.

“They (Franklin and Tippett) worked pretty well together, but I thought our defence was good, our midfield was good. We were pretty strong in most positions,” Longmire said.

“It was a really good performance against quality opposition. You can’t escape that. We were really pleased with how we went.

“It’s very difficult in AFL football to get all players playing well and playing well over four quarters for as long as we what we did tonight and we’ve got enormous respect for Geelong footy club, they’ve been able to do it for 10 years and they’ve been incredible with what they’ve been able to do, so we’ve got to try and put the pressure on like they’ve been able to for such a long time.”

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